The Glass Menagerie
Tennessee Williams
Amanda is selfish. She elicits many times this image of a caring, worrisome, mother, but in fact, all of her concerns for her children reveal her inner need to control their lives in order to make herself feel adequate. Tom, for instance, longs for intellectual stimulation, which in turn could also provide financial stability, but Amanda, in her constant worrying about money, can't seem to process that maybe it's worth Tom's happiness to make a change in their current lifestyle. It also seems to be obvious that Amanda wants desperately for her daughter to have a gentlemen caller. On the outside, the audience certainly sees a concerned mother, wanting her daughter to be well taken care of. When looking into Amanda's past, it is certainly obvious that she had an array of gentlemen callers to choose from, and she wishes that fortune upon her daughter. Amanda, however, doesn't simply want the best for her daughter, but she refuses to accept the handicaps of her daughter, and wants that she is identical to her, a rather selfish reason to want her daughter to find a husband.
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